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On Line Flight Simulator Games Show Your Children Great Stuff

By: Po Mohone

I didn’t recognize the promise of my on line flight simulator game to expand my children’s horizons until I found my second son tinkering around with it one day. He was already deep into designing his own plane when I came along and excited about what else he was going to do. “Hey, look Dad. You can build your own plane. And you can design your own airport, which is what I want to do after this”.

When my eldest youngster heard you could invent your own stuff in the on line flight simulator game he became involved. He does not like too much organization, likes to try things for himself. So the chance to do his own thing got him involved in the game.

So there they were, playing around with my on line flight simulator game, working on aircraft design, airport architecture, and preparing to move on to some engineering in the systems and controls. If I had wanted to talk to them about design or engineering or architecture they might have listened but only from a sense of duty. But now they were engaged in both off their own bat.

And I discovered myself in the situation of encouraging them to play a computer game instead of the usual monitoring of time, content, and noise level. The on line flight simulator game does not come with the biff, bang, wallop special effects typical in most computer games these days. It is almost silent although you can introduce your own sound effects if you desire. The special effects are really special but totally natural, not human mediated. And yet the children were fully occupied.

It was a flash of revelation for me. Before this I had only used the on line flight simulator for my own enjoyment. Because it was my game the kids assumed it would be too boring for them. I had too. But now here they were engaged in areas I could only have hoped to interest them in before this.

And then I thought of the other aspects of the on line flight simulator that are intrinsically educational, although I had not looked at it like that before. You can travel to over 20,000 airports worldwide. Simply knowing where they are is a geographical achievement. The scenery is photo-realistic thanks to developments in computer graphics so you get to see the great natural features of the world and visit any out of the ordinary place you can think of.

Evolution in animation mean that the astronomy is accurate and reactive – you see the sun, moon, and stars moving with you as you fly around the earth. My on line flight simulator game also has lifelike lighting features, both beacons and take off/landing lights, which are essential in terms of aerodynamics. My children would perhaps move into these areas as well.

For a moment I felt I had found the holy grail of education. Here they were getting engrossed in many of the areas I would want them to but discovering it on their own, which is always the most successful way. It was a benefit of my on line flight simulator that I had never imagined but was delighted by.

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